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« Reply #360 on: May 07, 2012, 09:37:09 am »
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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #361 on: May 07, 2012, 01:42:33 pm »
The TES universe is of large enough scale that a MMO might work without raping the existing lore with a rusty spoon.

Screenshots and Art here
..and already sceptical. That didn't take long. This is a bit too colorful for my idea of Tamriel.

.......Too colorful.  Really.

I think you've been stuck in the modern lands of brown for too long :P
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« Reply #362 on: May 07, 2012, 02:15:53 pm »
Too...colorful?  Seriously?  If that's the case, just turn all the colors on your TV down to 0, and bam! no more annoying color, because its all gone greyscale.

Honestly, I'm glad they've decided to take a leap, which I'm sad its considered one in this day and age, and add fucking color to their game.  Real is NOT brown.  I can count at least a dozen colors within 2 meters of me right now.  The real world has fucking color, brown doesn't make your world "gritty" or "realistic," it just makes it drab and fucking boring.

Bring me back to the days of colorful games, like Ultima, Nox, Symphony of the Night, and System Shock!  Shit, Thief has more colors than modern games, and you spend (if you're playing anywhere NEAR properly) a good 90% of the game in the dark!
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« Reply #363 on: May 07, 2012, 03:38:36 pm »
I don't agree with the too colorful thing.  Some of the screenshots I saw made me instantly think of Cyrodil from Oblivion.
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« Reply #364 on: May 07, 2012, 05:14:46 pm »
The TES universe is of large enough scale that a MMO might work without raping the existing lore with a rusty spoon.

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..and already sceptical. That didn't take long. This is a bit too colorful for my idea of Tamriel.

.......Too colorful.  Really.

I think you've been stuck in the modern lands of brown for too long :P

I agree.  Everything about those screenshots looks wonderful and rich, without being too bright. :3
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« Reply #365 on: May 07, 2012, 06:13:25 pm »
The color isn't the problem. It's the cartoonish art style. To me, it looks more like WoW than it does Elder Scrolls.

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« Reply #366 on: May 07, 2012, 06:26:40 pm »
The color isn't the problem. It's the cartoonish art style. To me, it looks more like WoW than it does Elder Scrolls.

...Cartoony?

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« Reply #367 on: May 07, 2012, 06:30:10 pm »
The color isn't the problem. It's the cartoonish art style. To me, it looks more like WoW than it does Elder Scrolls.


THIS is a screenshot from Elder Scrolls Online.


THIS is a screenshot from World of Warcraft.

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« Reply #368 on: May 07, 2012, 10:29:32 pm »
I mean it's obvious the graphics aren't going to be quite as high quality as like Skyrim for example, because it would run like shit with so many people playing at once.  However, like Ravynous pointed out, they are still a FAAAAAAAR step from the very cartoony WoW graphics.
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« Reply #369 on: May 07, 2012, 11:08:50 pm »
Meh, every other AAA MMORPG on the market has been completely destroyed by World of Warcraft in a matter of months. What the fuck makes Bethesda think that they'll fare any better?

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« Reply #370 on: May 07, 2012, 11:23:46 pm »
Meh, every other AAA MMORPG on the market has been completely destroyed by World of Warcraft in a matter of months. What the fuck makes Bethesda think that they'll fare any better?

The fans which have been clamoring for an Elder Scrolls MMO since the later years of Morrowind, perhaps?
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« Reply #371 on: May 07, 2012, 11:24:21 pm »
Meh, every other AAA MMORPG on the market has been completely destroyed by World of Warcraft in a matter of months. What the fuck makes Bethesda think that they'll fare any better?

If this were a few years ago, I'd agree with you.  However, WoW has been consistently losing loads of players over the last couple of years.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/243465/world_of_warcraft_loses_2_million_subscribers_in_a_year.html
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/720899/world-of-warcraft-loses-100000-subscribers-the-mmo-report/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/03/02/activision-jobs-cuts-warcraft-losing-wow-factor/

That and the fact that people I know who have been playing WoW since the beginning have pretty much all left WoW.  I myself haven't played in a long time except for like a week or two when Cata came out.

Don't get me wrong.  I still think WoW is a definitely going to be a hard competitor for any big title MMO coming out, but it's not quite the scary goliath it used to be.
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Re: Video Game Thread 2.0
« Reply #372 on: May 07, 2012, 11:29:08 pm »
Meh, every other AAA MMORPG on the market has been completely destroyed by World of Warcraft in a matter of months. What the fuck makes Bethesda think that they'll fare any better?

Guild Wars.  D&D Online.

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« Reply #373 on: May 08, 2012, 05:58:28 pm »
Just finished Arx Fatalis for the second time. great game, some of the puzzles towards the end of the game were pretty frustrating, but didn't dampen the experience to any significant degree. Would recommend RPG fans check it out, on GOG.com or Steam.

Also, how did I manage to miss the fact they are making an Elder Scrolls MMO? Would be pretty interesting to see modern versions of regions like Daggerfall and Vvardenfell.
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« Reply #374 on: May 08, 2012, 11:54:43 pm »
http://www.gamesradar.com/adventure-time-hey-ice-king-whyd-you-steal-our-garbage-announced-3ds/

Well, it's WayForward, so, this should work out fine. I mean, that Thor game for the DS was pretty decent, so...


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